Identifying “Rising Risk” Populations: Early Lessons from the Complex Care Innovation Lab
CHCS August 20, 2020
In response to COVID-19, health care organizations around the country are mobilizing to identify patients at high risk of getting infected by the virus and/or having poor health outcomes if they contract it. As it becomes clear that this pandemic will have long-lasting effects, the conversation around identifying risk is broadening to include who will be at risk in the coming months (and possibly years) due to the health care disruptions and ongoing emotional and financial toll.
Spurred in part by the pandemic and the recent release of two rigorous evaluations of complex care programs, emerging efforts within the field to better understand what being “at risk” means mirror conversations that select participants in the Center for Health Care Strategies’...